bpa wrote: > I think AAC is the better choice but before doing more discussion on > this, I think getting an answer from Michael, Felix etc. is there any > chance of a change in IP3K. I doubt it as development tools, libraries > and test facilities are probably archived. > Agreed. I just wanted to raise the topic just to make sure the only reason nothing happens is because nobody makes a start...
> > That said, I think if effort was to be put into a new codec, it should > be chunked protocols such as HLS natively on Touch and Radio and in LMS > would be better for the near future. > But that's a whole different story. I'd be all for that as well. Plus SSL support in LMS which will also be needed over the longer term. Atlantic wrote: > May I raise my hand to be counted as an Ogg depender? > Nobody planned to remove ogg so far ;) Ogg might be less abundant but it's not dying like WMA. And I'm still not sure just how much resources are freed up by removing Rhapsody. > > Quite a lot of our own recordings are coded in Ogg. This is not about own recordings. Your own stuff can always be transcoded by LMS, especially with an open source codec like ogg. What this is about is primarily radio plus maybe some online services (WiMP might remove mp3 streams one day, for example, they do already offer superior quality through AAC). With these there are two issues: 1) LMS has problems transcoding (remote) AAC streams on the fly so this doesn't always work 2) If you want to listen to radio without LMS running you can't transcode A lot of radio stations are switching to AAC these days because it's well supported on modern devices and gives the best quality at limited bandwidths. Plus, it's cheap for the station. These radio stations currently can't be played on ip3k players without LMS at all. Not even sure if all can be played _with_ LMS. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103711 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
